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Matthew Szulik says computing customers increasingly are rejecting proprietary products that lock them to a particular technology supplier.

Linux professionals will get one last chance to sit the LPI exams this year when certification exams are held in Johannesburg in December.

The CLP-510N has a dimension of 20.1" x 18.5" x 15.9" (WxDxH) and weighs 70.5 lbs. It is equipped with a Samsung SPGPm processor, can be fitted with memory capacity of 64 MB (standard) and 192 MB (maximum), and has print resolution of 1200 dpi. Its standard connectivity is thru Hi-Speed USB 2.0, 10/100 Base TX and optional thru 10/100 Base TX + 802.11b Wireless LAN. The color laser printer supports Microsoft® Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003, Mac OS 10.3x, various Linux OS incl. Red Hat, Caldera, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware, SuSE, and TurboLinux.

A maker of licensable DSP (digital signal processor) cores this week unveiled its next generation architecture for use in SoCs (system-on-chips) targeting high-performance mobile phones and portable multimedia devices. The StarCore V5 architecture is scalable to over 1 GHz, and includes an MMU function that allows it to run Linux, according to the company.

My Rx for Linux series last week drew the usual flack from people who maintain that Windows dominates the market because it's easier to use. Personally I don't think so. On the contrary I think that the hypothetical man from Mars who had never seen either system before would find it a lot easier to learn some basic Unix principles and then work out their application in Linux using the manuals than to memorize the action sequences needed to run Windows/XP servers. Unfortunately that's an unprovable proposition, at least until that Martian shows up and tells us we should all be using MarsOS Y anyway.

Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office said it is opposed to the Romney administration's plan to store state documents in an ''open" format, a plan that roused the ire of Microsoft Corp., maker of the popular Office suite of word processing, e-mail, presentation, and spreadsheet software.

number6x writes: If I were an "un-biased" analyst I would write something like
Attention all investors! Microsoft admits it can no longer compete on technical merits.

From a comment on the article: Microsoft Lines Up Politician Support In Mass. Format Battle

Open-Xchange Inc., manufacturer of a groupware solution of the same name, is inviting developers to try their hand as Open-Xchange clients in support of GNOME Evolution. All contributions to the project "Intelligent Design" (technical details) are to be made available under GNU Public License, with the best one to receive an award by the company on February 1 2006. In addition to the prize money of 1,000 US dollars the winner will be invited to fly as a guest to the LinuxWorld Expo, which takes place from the 3rd through the 6th of April 2006 in Boston.

Training company Computeach has launched what it claims is the first distance learning course in Lamp, the open source web server platform.

Need to pull some data from text--maybe e-mail messages--and sort it, graph it or otherwise manipulate it? Here's an AWK script to use as a starting point.

IBM and eight other storage vendors have formed a new open-source organisation to develop storage software.

Initially called Aperi, the organisation will create a common storage software for all vendors' systems making it easier for sysadmins to manage disparate storage systems. The software will be free.

Dave starts a new series on music notation software and explains why Linux has some of the best available on any platform.

With Breezy Badger out the door, the next version of Ubuntu, titled Dapper Drake, went into production today. Top of the high-level goals for Dapper is for it to be a 'polished' distribution.

Beyond the numbers. Customers flock to Linux because it works. By Jeffrey S. Smith, IBM Software Group Vice President, Linux Middleware.

SteelEye Technology, Inc., the leading provider of data and application availability management solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery on Linux and Windows, today announced its membership in the MySQL Network Certified Partner program. As a member of this program, SteelEye and MySQL will work together to facilitate the integration of MySQL into the current IT networks of enterprise customers and to ensure full availability against downtime for these environments.

Victoria, British Columbia -- Companies from around the world have joined forces to fund performance improvements to the PostgreSQL open source database. By pooling resources, the contributing companies have saved money while gaining important new database features for their businesses. Now, Refractions Research is pleased to report the completion of this collaborative effort to bring important concurrency improvements to the PostgreSQL GiST indexing subsystem.

Sita is keeping mum on likely open source spend over the next three years, but says winning bids for the government open source tender will be announced as early as mid-November.

Fault-tolerant server specialist Stratus Technologies Inc has confirmed that it will introduce a new line of Linux-based general-purpose fault-tolerant servers in January running Red Hat Inc's Enterprise Linux.

Google Inc. donated $350,000 to two Oregon universities Tuesday as part of the company's efforts to back open-source software development. The grant to Oregon State University and Portland State University is Google's first academic donation specifically directed toward supporting open-source development, Google said.

Tom Sanders writes: "Sun Microsystems plans to make its Java Desktop System (JSD) available for any Linux distribution through the new JDS Partner Programme, Sun executive vice president for software John Loiacono said at a town hall meeting in Sun's San Francisco office...

"The move will make the application available on any Linux distribution including Red Hat, Red Flag, Gentoo, Yellow Dog, and Linspire, Loiacono said. It also enables PC makers to start selling Linux systems that come bundled with the JDS suite and use the Java and JDS logos.

"The move is called for because there currently is no standard desktop Linux distribution, he said. This has lead many countries to create local distributions of the open source operating system. While the abundance of distributions is good for customer choice, it makes it hard for Sun to pick a single version to support."

[People who have worked with Sun over the past three years on the JDS desktop might suggest that you not hold your breath waiting. They promised an update of JDS 3 for February 2005. In December 2003, they also announced that they had sold 200 million copies of JDS to the Chinese Standard Software Company. Don't fein surprise if this never happens...you know the old thing about history repeating itself. -ED]